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Featured · November-January 2026

The latest Inside Dairy is now online, with news, farmer-led solutions, and science-backed tools.

20 Oct 2025

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Featured · November-January 2026

The latest Inside Dairy is now online, with news, farmer-led solutions, and science-backed tools.

20 Oct 2025

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Featured apps

RAS List - October bull data now live

Discover NZ's top proven bulls in the October Ranking of Active Sires (RAS) list update

Ranking of Active Sires

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Bull Search

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Bull Search

Search for an individual bull or set criteria to produce a list of bulls to suit your requirements.

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Breeding decisions

Annual performance review

Template for annual performance reivews.

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Performance management

Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

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Feed budgets

DairyNZ Econ Tracker tool

The DairyNZ Econ Tracker is an online tool that brings you economic information relevant to the New Zealand dairy sector right now.

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Planning

DairyBase login

Login to your DairyBase account and access all the information you need to make confident and effective farm management decisions.

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Business

Annual Leave Calculator

Use this calculator to work out annual leave entitlement for your employees.

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People

Supplement Price Calculator

The supplementary feed price calculator allows you to determine how much you can pay for supplementary feed.

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Feed

Career Pathways Book

This guide has been created for both employees and employers to help employees review career options, look at roles on farm and create a career pathway.

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Employee resources



Caring For Calves

For managers of teams involved in the care of calves from the paddock through the first few days of a calf’s life. Simple processes, to make sure that every calf has the best possible start.

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Calves



Caring For Damaged Tails Poster

This quick visual guide to caring for damaged tails shows you the steps you need to take if you see a newly damaged tail.

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Welfare

Catch Crop Gross Margin Calculator

Use this calculator to compare gross margins and cost of different catch crops.

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Environment



Catch-ups and training - the first 90 days

Templates for catchups and training plans for the first 90 days.

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Performance management

Channelling the right tools for flood management and runoff

An investigation into the ‘two-stage channel’, a promising tool to reduce landscape flooding and nutrients coming off the farm.

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Environment

Characteristics of 'Choice' Chicory and 'Tonic' Plantain

Use this guide to help choice between 'choice' chicory or 'tonic' plantain.

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Feed



Check udders after dry off - Smartsamm Technote 18

How to check udders after dry off

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Mastitis

Checking The Cooling Fluid To Milk Flow Ratio

Check correct flow rates through the plate cooler – two to three litres to every one litre of milk. Increasing water volume does not decrease water temperature.

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Milking



Checklist for contractors

A checklist for use when contractors or visitors come on the farm.

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Health and safety

Checklist for farm system change

This checklist is designed to help you through the process of significant farm system changes. The questions were drawn from farmer experiences.

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Business

Choosing A New Dairy

This publication covers key considerations for choosing a dairy and yard type that meets the specific needs and goals of your farm business.

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Milking

Comparative Stocking Rate Calculator

Instructions on how to calculate your comparative stocking rate

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Feed

Comparative Stocking Rate Form

Instructions on how to calculate your comparative stocking rate

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Feed



Conduct annual mastitis control activities and review achievements - Smartsamm Technote 22

Buying cows - check mastitis records and examine udders

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Mastitis

Constructed wetland options in the Upper Waituna catchment - NIWA 2014

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

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Environment



Constructed wetland practitioner guide

Design and performance information for surface-flow constructed wetlands to reduce contaminant loss.

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Environment

Constructed wetlands to reduce contaminant loss from pastoral farms

Key design guidelines and performance estimates of constructed wetlands, to reduce contaminant loss from pastoral farms

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Environment

Contract Milker

Description of a Contract milker with advantages and considerations of this operating structure.

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Business

Contract Milker Agreement With Top Up Linked To Milk Price

Description of a Contract milker with a top up payment linked to milk price, advantages and considerations of this operating structure.

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Business

Contract Milker Premium Calculator

A monthly cashflow budget takes your annual cash budget and spreads your income and expenses across the year giving you a month-by-month basis picture.

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Business

Convention on Biodiversity: Setting new global targets

DairyNZs feedback to MFAT on the development of a new suite of global diversity tragets to underpin the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)

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Regulations

Converting Single Sample Herd Test Production to 24 Hour Equivalent Production

Methodology for single milk sample

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Milking

Corina Park Field Day Handout

Canterbury dairy farmers lead the way in showcasing how nitrogen (N) losses can continue to be reduced in order to protect local waterways.

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Environment